TBD please I am asking you to fix the hole in my heart!
“You wanted to tr-”
“I wanted to be yours.” Andrew interrupts and Neil freezes. “I still want to be yours.”
It is a terrifying thing for Andrew to admit. The distance of 5 years doesn’t make it any less terrifying for Andrew to admit. Andrew should want to belong to no one but himself. An Andrew who never flew out with Kevin Day to bumfuck nowhere Arizona would want that. An Andrew who never swung a racquet and caught Neil Josten in the stomach would want that.
Andrew’s not that Andrew.
Andrew wants to be Neil Josten’s and he wants Neil Josten to be his.
That’s why he went out and endured hours of ring shopping with his cousin. It’s that admission that had his cousin wrap that ring in hundreds of layers of packaging tape just so that he could convey how important it was for Andrew not to throw out what was contained within.